Ghazal Poems | Ghazal Examples

Pain held in heart I’m hanging on, In life’s gravest gloom, going on. World vicarious watch as if fun, From a cracked mirror peeping on. Smoke billows from my burning heart, I battle but it’s blazing on. How self-seeking can be this world! Friends as foes, askance looking on. With one-track will my woes wear me, Though hurt, my heart’s just heaving on. ...

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At dusk when my shadows quit me, That’s when hundred arrows hit me. So far some faceless folks fooled me, My own close to heart now cheat me. A feeling heart hails thee, my friend, Come heart to heart, why audit me? Come, pry unto my nightlong dreams, Thence, for what I say credit me. Dawn dawns, if dream deprived I...

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Lifelong longing of mine you are, Highest art, heart divine you are. Not even for a second far, In every cell supine you are. My treasured gift forever green, Mirrors vouch, how genuine you are. All world willing is to confess: What wonderful design you are! To my fond dreams a moonlit night, And night that lets moon shine, you are. Love potion,...

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If balm of time heals, oft hurts just enough, Heart heals because it exerts just enough. Unfortunate for all destinations, Journeys do end, linger thirsts just enough. Many a love may die before its time, Perhaps the love bird flirts not just enough. If a marriage gets short of breath midway, It seeks short cuts, skirts the right long...

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Name of hardship to life’s journey we gave, To means that help move on, money we gave. To loose change that’s today money the least, What else? As a worthless penny we gave. That which never if ever opened mouth, To dumb mirror, nickname dummy we gave. To love’s first journey of sweet memories, Yea, you have guessed it right: honey...

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If sometimes name moves on, Oftentimes fame moves on. What well begins moves on, If ends well, game moves on. If able limbs move on, Limb-lost, lame oft moves on. A shame-soaked scarce moves on, Fame filled to frame moves on. Right from birth death moves on, Life’s aim is same: moves on. If fear of shame shackles, Freed from same man moves on. Life’s life...

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A rare crescent when comes to be, Moon’s silver so scant comes to be. No fragrance from some comes to be, From some a foul scent comes to be. No use digging into the past, The same old repent comes to be. Break mirrors nor try to look in, Image nigh but bent comes to be. If ye look...

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Wo daulat wo shohrat jo chahiye thi mil gayi kya Jo main de na saka tha wo khushiyan mil gayi kya? Jin ko paane ki chaah mein chhoda tha tumne mujhko Us shaks mein tumhein wo saari khoobiyaan mil gayi kya? Wo moti jade lehange ka, kya shauk tera poora hua Wo tujhe heero se judi hui choodiyan mil gayi...

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Ever since we called thee as grief O Life, Heavy hast thou turned, light as leaf O Life. Not sprightly, but nigh painful do thou feel As if ye climb up a stiff cliff O Life. Hence, thought up I have this remedial pill: To bestow thee boost of life brief O Life. In this world, unfortunate seems...

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Heart-shaped box of chocolates, late Winter surprise. See sailor, in a dark uniform, hiding his eyes. She knows him now, all too well, every inch of him. This sailor, in a dark uniform, hiding his eyes. A straight and narrow arrow flew from Cupid’s bowstring. Struck sailor, in a dark uniform, hiding his eyes. He had to open them then -...

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Ere I die, such a life give me, O God, That I get unaware of me, O God, So that my heart’s pain hover not on tongue, Lifeless helplessness so heavy, O God, That, on gulping oceans I go quenchless, Give me quenchless quench so dreary, O God. Give me downpours of pain, night of sorrows, When did I say make me...

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Twirling her fairy skirt, a lace and pearl dessert. His eyes hypnotized by the lace and pearl overt. Bells on her fingertips, this lace and pearl concert. She gives her all to him in lace and pearl exert. Her father hides her in the lace and pearl turret. But marriage...

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The clock at tick-tock - appears a flower On the Precipice of the Midnight Hour. Green eyes scan the darkest blue; and brown eyes, On the Precipice of the Midnight Hour. Fuzzy figures all about the dusk-ing On the Precipice of the Midnight Hour. Brown spots on leaves; and Autumn wrinkled skin, On the Precipice of the Midnight Hour. Fateful showers begin with...

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Need there’s to smile nor cry in life, What will, will by and by in life. Bank to bank lifeboats ply in life, Still, the same boats must die in life. One must swim, cannot fly in life Whilst sorrows do defy in life. Think, what to sow, not sigh in life If rainy gets the sky in life. To unknot tangled...

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Mere glimpse of her hair is enough, Today this much dare is enough. Hints of tears of love in her eyes, Such fond prize so rare is enough. She eyeing me with fleeting glance, To me such honour is enough. The dream of her beautiful lips, As investment fair it’s enough. Her hand held in hand can well wait, Today’s kiss in air is...

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